Chapter 1
Chapter 1
1. Port of Pinning
This year’s summer in Pinning Harbor is very unusual. It’s August and it’s still shrouded in cloudy and cloudy weather. Before going out, I saw the sun, and within a few steps, dark clouds blocked most of the light.
"It's going to rain, it's going to rain heavily." The grandmother who sells tofu curds said in fluent Mandarin.
Hearing the sound, Ji Fanyun withdrew his gaze, stopped observing the dark clouds, lowered his head to look at grandma, and asked her, "Do you want to close the stall quickly?"
"Hurry up, I'm going home." Grandma quickly packed four cups of bean curd and handed them to Ji Fanyun.
Ji Fanyun picked up the things, while using his mobile phone to scan the QR code pasted on the burden to pay.
Grandma took up the burden to stop her: "Just give half of the money."
Two pots of sweet bean curd and gypsum paste cooked by grandma are wrapped in the woven baskets at both ends of the burden. Grandma has been selling this stuff for more than [-] years, from a few cents a bowl to two yuan a cup now.
Ji Fanyun could hear her yelling every day at this time, and he managed to find the same accent to talk to her a few times.
Grandma hunched her back, her brows were very kind, and before she was about to leave, she called Ji Fanyun and called him "little boy", and said: "You have grown up so much, does your mother still beat you? Don't be afraid of that bad boy." Woman, don't give her money, you are going to go to college, study more, and don't come back when you are successful..."
Ji Fanyun nodded respectfully and said "yes" repeatedly.
He watched grandma leave, and his smile gradually faded.
Ji Fanyun is an actor, he was born as a child star, and the "little boy" that grandma called just now is a role he played when he was a child.
He started filming at the age of seven. He has acted as a lonely and pitiful abandoned child, and also played the childhood of a domineering president. So far, his 15 years of acting have allowed him to accumulate a lot of fans. It's rare for an old man like grandma who only enters a role in the play and doesn't know how to distinguish between the inside and the outside of the play.
In today's fast-changing entertainment industry, Ji Fanyun is undoubtedly the most outstanding and popular niche, and he is a type of young idol that is difficult to define.
Before the age of 17, the label attached to him was "spiritual energy", his eyes were bright, he could fly, he could be sad, he could be dim, and he could be praised for his small drama.
Of course, the limelight is too strong, and it is often ridiculed that it will definitely not escape the curse of child stars who will die forever.
The curse did not fall on Ji Fanyun, and for a long time afterwards, the label on his body was "God rewards me with food".
At the age of 17, he became a new first love male god with a campus youth drama, and then earned enough traffic and popularity as a resident MC of several popular variety shows. When everyone thought he would hold the "youth" job like this and walk the idol road Then, he suddenly disappeared.
Returning to the audience's sight is a subversive character image.
Two years ago, he participated in the absurd comedy film "The Old Man Lost the Horse" directed by Hao Luo. The film was quite eye-catching in the competition units of several major film festivals at home and abroad, and won numerous awards.
"Northern Old Man Lost Horse" tells about the ups and downs of the fate of Cui Laoweng's family, an upstart in an old town in the north. The film is full of desolate tone from beginning to end.
The desolate dilapidated old town; the desolate and narrow cognitive view of the family of four who won the lottery jackpot and tried their best to squander it; after coming out of the small town and seeing the big city, the four people have a sense of confusion and desolation.
It's a comedy, and the audience can easily laugh out loud at the embarrassing and pretentious scenes of the protagonist's family, and then feel sad for the depressive reality presented by the film after it's ridiculous.
Ji Fanyun played the youngest son Cui Min in the film. He didn't have the most roles, but he was deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and he played a greedy and arrogant little character.A few years later, the scene in the movie where he walks on the streets of the metropolis carrying money for fear of losing it and pretending to be rich still makes people talk about it.
It is a movie with a strong sense of irony. It talks too bluntly about the solidification of class, so it is not pleasing. It is just that the actors and film production team dare to speak and speak, and the soundtrack to the picture of the film are all beautiful, so it is full of loads. praise.
Ji Fanyun disappeared for a while after "The Old Man Lost His Horse", and it was not until the beginning of this year that he returned to the public's attention with a work of a costume drama.
It's not the protagonist, the roles he plays in the play are ranked outside the top five, but any role can always live out its glory in the hands of Ji Fanyun.
He played the unsuccessful puppet prince. Before the show started, he first received a lot of heated discussions because of his gorgeous and handsome costumes. Afterwards, his performance vividly portrayed the downfall, ambition, desire, and ambition of a declining figure in the imperial court. Every word, every move, raising and closing eyes are all jokes, within a short period of time Ji Fanyun's name has reached the top of all major webpages.
The previous traffic and popularity were not affected by disappearing from the screen several times. Instead, they returned one after another with absolutely wonderful characters, making Ji Fanyun's transformation successful, and becoming more and more popular in terms of public recognition and nationality.
Now, Ji Fanyun is pulling his slippers and walking on the bluestone path with puddles of water, he got lost.
Just now in the hotel room, I heard my grandma selling bean curds, and I didn’t even bring an umbrella when I chased downstairs. I clearly remembered and turned a corner, but now I can’t find the way back after a long time.
The rain was pattering down, Ji Fanyun hid under the eaves of a roof in the alley, most of the clothes on his body were already wet.
The phone vibrated, and it was the manager who asked in the WeChat voice: "Brother, what are the arrangements before starting the machine, do you want to come back for a decent birthday meal?"
The eaves of the tile-roofed house couldn't stop the slanting wind and heavy rain, and Ji Fanyun couldn't avoid it, so he could only quickly put away his phone after listening to the voice, looking at the sky and the rain helplessly.
He didn't want to call someone for help because he was lost and rained, he felt that it was too embarrassing.
This strange town is where Ji Fanyun's new movie will be filmed for some time in the future, and he came here in advance to familiarize himself with the environment.
I have been here for more than a week, and every day I am not reading scripts and writing biographies in the hotel room, or going downstairs to chat with residents and vendors to learn my accent.
The new play is the second in the absurd series directed by Hao Luo. The title of the film is "The Oriole Behind". The background of the story moves from the old town in the north to the seaport in the south.
Ji Fanyun is the leading actor this time, he plays a street gangster.
In order to feel the role in advance, my hair hasn't been trimmed for a long time. A few days ago, I went to a nearby barber shop to get some red hair, shaved off my eyebrows, tied a ponytail, and pretended to be dragging.
But the image is drawn, the face is still immature, the hair tail that can't be tied sticks to his neck, and he can't get rid of it. He frowns and shakes his head from side to side, full of anger, and his peach blossom eyes have lost their charm.
Ji Fanyun's irritability lasted only a few moments, his face changed subtly, he looked up and looked around, and then cursed.
The scolding was a few words of local dialect he had learned.
It may be the feeling of looking for a role, or it may be the feeling of looking for a role to vent some emotions that the big star Ji Fanyun cannot have.
After cursing a few words, he withdrew his expression bored, became gloomy, and leaned against the wall paralyzed.
When it rains, the long and deep alley turns into a huge loudspeaker. The rain falls on the tiles of the eaves, and the water flows over the uneven bluestone pavement. It was annoying.
bother.
The wet clothes sticking to the body is even more annoying.
Ji Fanyun wanted to sigh, but suddenly discerned approaching footsteps amidst the sound of rain, so he quickly hid his irritability and stood up straight.
The visitor also took shelter from the rain, turned into the alley and walked quickly to the eaves of the house opposite Ji Fanyun, and only found Ji Fanyun's existence when he stood still.
Ji Fanyun didn't really want to be recognized by passers-by with such a drowned appearance, and buried his face when he heard footsteps.
As a result, even if he lowered his head, he couldn't ignore the gaze from the opposite side.
That gaze seemed to have never moved away, and it had a strong sense of presence, which made Ji Fanyun very uncomfortable.
He knew that he was recognized by others, after thinking about it, he squeezed his docile smile and looked up, what was he going to say, he was going to say...
—You won't recognize me, will you?
——Don’t post me like this on the Internet.
Be docile.
Be friendly.
That's what he does best.
but……
The moment he raised his head, Ji Fanyun took a few more glances at the abdominal muscle line of the person opposite him, which was pressed against the fabric, and missed the best opportunity to speak.
He didn't look back in time, so he directly met the eyes of the person opposite.
Your brain is flooded, Ji Fanyun secretly scolded himself.
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Remarks: copy and paste Baidu Chinese
[Northern Old Man Lost Horse] Idiom story: In ancient Saibei, the horse of an old man’s family ran away to the Hu people outside the Great Wall. The villagers comforted him, and he said that this is not necessarily a bad thing. A few days later, the lost horse brought back a few The fierce horse came back.The old man thought that this was not necessarily a good thing. His son broke his leg while riding a Huma.
[The oriole is behind] Idiom story: There is a tree in the garden; on it is a cicada;These three are intended to obtain the former benefits without regard to the subsequent dangers.
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